The Disconnect


April 22, 2011

The Disconnect

By: Hugh Hewitt

Saturday's Tea Party Patriots gathering at the fair grounds in Sacramento was a boisterous and, as always, well-behaved and friendly event. The large crowd sat under very sunny skies and heard from Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler, Congressman Tom McClintock, the Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell and me among many others. My on-stage colleagues were passionate and interesting, but by far the most important message came from the crowd not from the front of the gathering.

The vast majority of the grassroots at the rally think the House GOP got rolled on the recently completed budget deal. They are profoundly unhappy with the Beltway GOP and talk of primary opponents and support for Democrats in select races against big-spending Republican appropriators was everywhere.

Bill Bennett

Bill speaks with Gil Kerlikoswke on the national drug prescription battle and the rise in Central American drug trade.

Mike Gallagher

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Dennis Prager

President Obama has a clear economic theme: tax "the rich." That and a few surgical cuts and debt problem solved. Who could object to that? Too bad it has no connection to reality.

Michael Medved

Michael discusses Bruce Thornton's new book, Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich and Obama's America.

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh talks about the Obama administration's decision to now embrace signing statements on legislation after campaigning hard against using them.

Greg Clugston

White House Correspondent

SRN Correspondent Greg Clugston keeps you informed about all the news coming from the White House.

Linda Kenyon

Capitol Hill Correspondent (Senate)

Reporting from Capitol Hill, Linda Kenyon has updates on what's going on in the Senate.

Peggy Wehmeyer

World Vision Report

SRN Correspondent Peggy Wehmeyer discusses what's happening in the world today.

philly.com

Grasping budget's billions and trillions

By: Emily Skarbek

Taxpayers might have strong feelings about government spending, but most have no idea what the huge, abstract numbers in the federal budget mean to them personally. So most of us pay our taxes, vote on occasion, and let the politicians deal with the dollars.

Was the recent compromise trimming this year's $3.8 trillion federal budget by approximately $38.5 billion a good deal for taxpayers? How about the proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to reduce spending by some $6.2 trillion over the next 10 years? Or President Obama's $4 trillion counterproposal?

The Wall Street Journal

The 30-Cent Tax Premium

By: Arthur B. Laffer

There is a lot more to taxes than simply paying the bill. Taxpayers must spend significantly more than $1 in order to provide $1 of income-tax revenue to the federal government.

To start with, individuals and businesses must pay the government the $1 in revenue plus the costs of their own time spent filing and complying with the tax code; plus the tax collection costs of the IRS; plus the tax compliance outlays that individuals and businesses pay to help them file their taxes.

The Examiner

There is a 'magic' formula for lower gas prices

By: Examiner Editorial

There is no magic formula to driving gas prices down," President Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd earlier this month. Although he was literally correct that there is no magical concatenation of words involved, there is a formula. It involves either persuading Obama to reverse his opposition to significant expansion of domestic energy production, or replacing him in the Oval Office in November 2012.

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